The challenge of international business

The Challenge of International Business Peter J Buckley www.ebook3000.com The Challenge of International Business Also by Peter J Buckley CANADA–UK BILATERAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS (with Christopher L Paes and Kate Prescott) THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT POLICY THE FUTURE OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE (with Mark Casson) INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BY SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (co-edited with Jaime Campos and Eduardo White) MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (co-edited with Jeremy Clegg) MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, COOPERATION AND COMPETITION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY THE STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (co-edited with Fred Burton and Hafiz Mirza) STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Economics and Anthropology, Theory and Method www.ebook3000.com The Challenge of International Business Peter J Buckley Centre for International Business University of Leeds UK ' Peter J Buckley 2004 Foreword ' Steve Kobrin 2004 All rights reserved No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd Macmillanâ is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries ISBN 1–4039–1306–4 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress cataloging-in-Publication Data Buckley, Peter J., 1949– The challenge of international business / Peter J Buckley p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 1–4039–1306–4 (cloth) International business enterprises—Management Knowledge management Joint ventures Investments, Foreign Transfer pricing Competition, International International business enterprises—Developing countries I Title HD62.4.B828 2004 6580 049—dc22 2004046494 10 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne www.ebook3000.com To current and future members of the Institute for Research on Contemporary China (IRCC), University of Leeds This page intentionally left blank www.ebook3000.com Contents Foreword by Stephen J Kobrin ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on the Contributors xii Introduction Part I The Challenge Is the International Business Research Agenda Running out of Steam? Part II The Response Strategic Complexity in International Business (with Mark Casson) 19 Internationalization – Real Options, Knowledge Management and the Uppsala Approach (with Mark Casson and Mohammed Azzim Gulamhussen) 54 Globalization and the End of Competition: a Critical Review of Rent-seeking Multinationals (with Pervez N Ghauri) 83 Trust in International Joint Venture Relationships (with Margreet F Boersma and Pervez N Ghauri) 101 The Challenges of the New Economy for Multinational Firms: Lessons for South-East Asia 124 Part III Knowledge Management in Multinational Firms Process and Structure in Knowledge Management Practices of British and US Multinational Enterprises (with Martin J Carter) 145 Governing Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Enterprises (with Martin J Carter) 167 vii viii Contents Part IV Empirics 10 11 12 13 14 Evolution of FDI in the United States in the Context of Trade Liberalization and Regionalization (with Jeremy Clegg, Nicolas Forsans and Kevin T Reilly) 189 The Impact of Inward FDI on the Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms (with Jeremy Clegg and Chengqi Wang) 198 FDI, Regional Differences and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from China (with Jeremy Clegg, Chengqi Wang and Adam R Cross) 220 Incentives to Transfer Profits: a Japanese Perspective (with Jane Frecknall Hughes) 242 A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal (with Francisco B Castro) 254 Index 290 www.ebook3000.com Foreword In some respects international business is a relatively new field of scholarly research Many of those who were ‘present at the creation’ such as John Dunning, Stefan Roebock and Jean Boddewyn are still active participants in academic meetings On the other hand it has been over 40 years since two events occurred in 1960 which can be taken as marking the separation of international business from international economics: the completion of Stephen Hymer’s seminal dissertation arguing that foreign direct investment (FDI) could not be explained as an international capital flow, and the first use of the term ‘multinational corporation’ by David Lillienthal at a conference at what is now Carnegie Mellon University One can only assume that the arguments about whether or not international business was a separate discipline started immediately! That somewhat hoary question aside, there is no question that the first few decades of international business research were dynamic, productive and exciting Great strides were made in explaining FDI phenomenologically, developing systematic and empirically based analyses of the strategy and structure of multinational firms, understanding the motives for and sequence of international expansion, entry strategy and the management of joint ventures and alliances I suspect that many of us in the field feel that the flow of new knowledge has slowed considerably in the last decade While international business researchers continue to be productive and there have been a large number of interesting new papers and books published, it is hard to think of many major breakthroughs since the last 1980s and early 1990s To some extent, this is a natural consequence of the maturity of any academic discipline As a discipline ages the initial burst of new knowledge is replaced by deeper, more sophisticated and more empirically rigorous studies of a necessarily more limited scope On the other hand, it may reflect the approaching exhaustion of the current paradigm (or paradigms): it may result from diminishing returns from current approaches to scholarship Peter Buckley hurls such a challenge at the outset of this volume, suggesting that ‘the international business research agenda is running out of steam after a period of vibrancy’ Buckley argues that at this point international business lacks a ‘big research question’, an important confrontation with empirical reality that the scholars in the field can deal with collaboratively In the chapters that follow Buckley and his co-authors and contributors suggest some directions for international business research, some ‘big problems’ that will re-energize and reinvigorate the field and they provide some examples of methodologies and approaches to problems that will certainly ix 274 The Challenge of International Business for UK investors, they differed from the rest of the sample in the role of downstream integration The UK was until 1974 the main trading partner of Portugal This position is now less relevant, but the results obtained seem to translate a deeper involvement of British firms in Portugal, which over the years may have internalized their operations, replacing exports with FDI It should be noted, however, that the groups obtained using the firms’ country of origin were very heterogeneous in terms of their motivations Much more so than in the case of industries That probably explains why so few differences were found in Table 14.8 The only determinants that seem to be country specific are those with geopolitical connections: proximity and access to the EU market Not many differences in the determinants of FDI can be attributed to the size of the subsidiaries (Table 14.9) In fact, the differences found reflect no more than different market orientations (Figure 14.10) Smaller firms (fewer than 50 employees) were particularly concerned with the conditions in the local market and with the sales function (downstream integration) For bigger firms the main determinant of FDI in Portugal was labour conditions Rather interestingly, the importance of the local market and downstream integration decreased linearly with the size of the firm, while labour conditions registered a linear increase with size (all statistically significant at 10 per cent) The differences in the determinants of FDI that could be associated with the year of investment were particularly interesting Table 14.10 suggests that two periods in Portugal’s recent history saw efficiency seeking being replaced by market seeking as the main motivation of inward FDI in Portugal The first was the decade that followed the 1974 revolution, which also corresponds to a major economic crisis worldwide The second was the period after 1995, which somehow seems to consolidate the trend of the first half of the 1990s The latter is particularly worrying It confirms that the recent decrease of inward FDI in Portugal (see first section) affected in particular efficiency-seeking FDI This is further confirmed by the decreasing importance of competition as a determinant of FDI Foreign investors seem to be searching in other locations the solution for stronger competition in the domestic market At face value, this trend is not necessarily negative for the Portuguese economy Economic development and the resulting higher production costs tend to reduce countries’ ability to attract these footloose investments However, this evolution should translate into a growing importance of internalization variables over localization (Dunning, 1981) In terms of the determinants identified here, that would mean a growing importance of downstream and upstream integration, which was not the case Alternative locations The decision to invest in a foreign country should normally involve the consideration of alternative locations In the sample, however, only 42 per cent www.ebook3000.com Table 14.9 Rank of the determinants of investment in Portugal for firms of different sizes Determinants of FDI labour force Labour conditions Stability Competition Local market Downstream Market diversification Passive expansion EU market Proximity Upstream All firms Less than 20 (31) 21 to 50 (28) 51 to 100 (30) 101 to 200 (34) 201 to 500 (32) More than 500 (25) 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 7 10 6 10 5 7 9 9 10 8 10 10 8 10 10 275 276 The Challenge of International Business 100 % Turnover 80 60 Rest of the world 40 Other Europe Other EU15 20 Spain Portugal 500 Firm’s size (labour force) Figure 14.10 Market distribution versus firm’s size of the respondents (88 firms) claimed to have analysed other locations before investing in Portugal Most of these, however, considered more than one alternative Eastern Europe and Spain were the most common alternatives considered (46 and 44 firms, respectively), followed by the most developed EU members (considered by 40 of the respondents) Ireland and Greece were a hypothesis for a much smaller number firms (Table 14.11) In general, the European locations were positively correlated, which suggests they were frequently considered simultaneously The exception was the correlation coefficient (Spearman’s rho) between Spain and Eastern Europe, which was negative and statistically significant at 10 per cent That is, Spain and Eastern Europe did not seem to be, in general, alternatives to each other Finally, non-European locations were positively correlated with Eastern Europe and negatively with Spain But the level of statistical significance of these relationships was rather low, impeding further speculation The differences in the ranking of the determinants of FDI between firms that considered alternative locations and those that only considered Portugal for their investment were less marked than anticipated (Table 14.12) Nevertheless, labour conditions and EU market were much more important for firms that considered alternative locations than for those that did not The opposite was true for local market and downstream integration This www.ebook3000.com Table 14.10 Rank of the determinants of investment in Portugal per year of first investment Determinants of FDI year of investment Labour conditions Stability Competition Local market Downstream Market diversification Passive expansion EU market Proximity Upstream All firms Before 1960 (11) 1960 to 1974 (25) 1975 to 1985 (15) 1986 to 1990 (58) 1991 to 1995 (51) After 1995 (20) 4 2 1 3 3 5 4 5¼ 7 7 10 5¼ 10 10 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 277 278 The Challenge of International Business Table 14.11 Alternative locations Eastern Europe Spain Ireland Greece Other EU Other locations no % no % no % no % no % no % Strong alternative Considered Total 33 72 35 80 10 56 40 24 62 13 52 13 28 20 44 60 15 38 12 48 46 100 44 100 18 100 15 100 39 100 25 100 suggests that efficiency-seeking investment was more common among firms that considered alternative locations, and market-seeking among those that did not But the two types of investment coexisted in both groups Equally surprising was that only small differences were found in the determinants associated with firms that considered Spain as the alternative location and those that considered Eastern Europe (Table 14.12) The suspicion was that efficiency-seeking investment should be more common when Eastern Europe was the main alternative, and market-seeking investment dominant when the main alternative was Spain However, the evidence to support this was weak Firms that considered Eastern Europe the main alternative location did rate labour conditions higher and local market and downstream integration lower than those that considered Spain But this is far from conclusive evidence Public incentives and the role of the government It was seen above that, as a determinant of FDI, public incentives were consistently associated with labour costs and skills This was interpreted as evidence that they have attracted essentially efficiency-seeking FDI – projects that exploited the relatively low Portuguese labour costs but reasonable labour skills This idea was reinforced by the fact that public incentives were especially valued as a determinant of investment by the export-oriented industries: textiles, clothing and footwear, and machinery and equipment In the sectors most oriented towards the local market, on the other hand (commerce and chemicals and oil), public incentives were completely irrelevant Furthermore, there was a linear positive relationship (statistically significant at per cent) between the importance of public incentives and www.ebook3000.com Table 14.12 Rank of the determinants of investment in Portugal Determinants of FDI Labour conditions Stability Competition Local market Downstream Market diversification Passive expansion EU market Proximity Upstream No alternative location considered Alternative location considered Spain considered (2.58) (3.36) (3.04) (3.61) (2.76) (2.93) (3.02) (3.16) (2.51) (2.61) (2.51) (2.83) (2.54) 4¼ (2.21) (2.53) (2.29) (1.74) 4¼ (2.21) (2.21) (2.39) (2.14) (1.99) (2.14) (2.22) (2.50) (1.96) (2.19) (1.84) (2.00) (1.92) (2.06) (2.11) (1.96) (1.76) (1.74) 10 (1.69) 10 (1.71) 10 (1.75) 10 (1.72) (1.92) Eastern Europe considered Note: Figures in parentheses are the mean of a scale that ranged from (irrelevant) to (very important) 279 280 The Challenge of International Business firm size (no statistically significant differences were found when the firms were grouped by country of origin or year of investment) These characteristics reflect very much the public policies towards FDI, particularly concerned with attracting big industrial projects with a stronger impact on employment and on public opinion The official website of ICEP, the institution responsible for promoting Portugal as a location of FDI, is very clear about what Portugal can offer to foreign investors ‘Imagine a country with the lowest labour costs in Europe ( .) Add to this a stable political environment ( .) and low criminality’ (ICEP, 2000) As many as 38 per cent of the manufacturing firms in the sample that accepted examining this topic in more detail reported having received public incentives in their investment in Portugal The figure was especially high in machinery and equipment, where 55 per cent of the subsidiaries received some sort of public support On the other hand, in the natural resourcesbased industries only one in five firms were supported by the local authorities (Figure 14.11) Since foreign investment qualifies for support from the European Union’s structural funds, the especial incidence of public support in the most recently created firms should be expected (Figure 14.12) 60 55 50 40 42 38 30 31 30 20 19 10 Food Textiles/ footwear Natural Chemicals/ resources oil Metal Machinery/ equipment Figure 14.11 Percentage of firms that received public incentives, per industry www.ebook3000.com A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal 281 60 50 % Turnover 50 43 40 41 38 30 23 20 15 10 before 1960 1960–1974 1975–1985 1986–1990 1991–1995 after 1995 Figure 14.12 Percentage of firms that received public incentives, per year of investment Despite the number of projects that received public support, only 11 per cent of the respondents claimed that without public incentives they would have not invested in Portugal; 54 per cent would have invested less than they did, but in 35 per cent of the cases public support was no more than a bonus for the investors: they claimed that the investment would have been exactly the same even without public incentives Government intervention was, however, more important than these figures suggest At least that is the inference that can be made from the opinion of the biggest firms (with more than 500 employees) One-third would not have invested in Portugal without incentives, and a further half would have invested but on a smaller scale The need for government intervention was, nevertheless, felt much more strongly at a different level When asked about the main problems faced in Portugal, the managers that participated in the survey gave especial emphasis to bureaucracy and the legal system and to a shortage of skilled workers.6 Both problems correspond to institutional failures The failure to promote an efficient legal environment, and the failure to create advanced assets that may compensate for rising production costs Successive governments seemed to have been aware of these difficulties Investment in education and vocational training increased substantially in the last two decades, supported by the European Union structural funds However, the dramatic fall of inward FDI in recent years suggests that not enough has yet been done 282 The Challenge of International Business Conclusion Previous work on the determinants of FDI in Portugal (Matos, 1973; Taveira, 1984; Simo ˜ es, 1985; Buckley and Castro, 1998b) suggested a dichotomy of motivations Investment in export-oriented industries aimed to exploit Portugal’s low labour costs and privileged access to some of the most developed markets in Europe However, the dominant motivation seemed to be access to the local market; when aggregated data was analysed the relevance of labour costs was eclipsed by market-related variables Past research has, however, been limited by the poor quality of the data available and the deficient disaggregation in terms of industries and countries of origin This firm level study overcomes that problem by using a questionnaire survey of 237 manufacturing and commercial foreign subsidiaries established in Portugal The respondents’ evaluation of a number of potential reasons to invest in Portugal permitted the identification of ten determinants of FDI, a list that is a combination of location variables with internalization determinants and push factors The dominant motivations were, for the manufacturing industries, labour costs and skills, political and economic stability, competition in the home country, and access to the local market However, the determinants associated with the most export-oriented industries (textiles, clothing and footwear, and machinery and equipment) were substantially distinct from the others Firms in these industries saw Portugal as a stable low cost location with easy access to the EU markets Nonetheless, it was possible to confirm Simo ˜ es’s (1985) distinction between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ labour intensive industries The former were especially sensitive to the competitive conditions in the home country, while the latter were more responsive to the global competitive conditions In the remaining manufacturing industries and in commerce market access was the dominant motivation However, in all the manufacturing industries there seemed to be export-oriented segments (e.g fabricated plastic goods in the chemicals and oil industries) or at least strategies of individual firms An attempt to aggregate the subjects using cluster analysis produced fairly poor results The clusters showed little homogeneity in terms of the industries represented in each cluster, which certainly constitutes an interesting element to be exploited in future research The country of origin of the investing firm was much less relevant than the industry in the definition of the determinants of FDI Geographic and cultural proximity was, expectedly, the only determinant clearly countryrelated The surprise was probably that proximity seemed to induce marketseeking investment, rather than efficiency-seeking FDI However, the explanation may lay simply in the fact that the countries more engaged www.ebook3000.com A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal 283 in the latter, notably Germany, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, are all rather ‘distant’ from Portugal Eastern Europe and Spain were, according to the participants in the study, the locations more likely to compete for foreign investments with Portugal The two seemed to compete for different projects, but the evidence was not clear in terms of the expected differences despite hints that Spain was more commonly a competing location when market access was the main motivation, while Eastern Europe was more often considered in the case of efficiency-seeking FDI The fact that the investigation did not cover firms that did not choose Portugal restricted the analysis Finally, the bigger firms in the sample considered that public incentives were of uttermost importance for their decision to invest in Portugal Among smaller firms, however, the opinion was that incentives had little impact upon the investment decision There was, nevertheless, a generalized concern with the difficulties created by bureaucracy and the unavailability of skilled workers The sharp fall of inward FDI in Portugal in the past decade suggests that not enough has been done to overcome these problems Notes This research was partially financed by Programa Parxis XXI, Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia The full questionnaire is available from the authors on request For their suggestions in the elaboration of the questionnaire, we are indebted to a number of people: Vitor Corado Simo ˜ es (ISEG, Universidade Te´cnica de Lisboa), Vasco Rodrigues and Leonor Sopas (Universidade Cato´lica Porto) and Ana Teresa Tavares (University of Reading and Faculdade de Economia Porto) The formats were supplied by Madalena Arau´jo (Universidade Cato´lica Porto) Many of these firms had ceased operations in Portugal Others had merged or changed their name, and had been contacted twice In others the foreign participation had been sold to Portuguese investors Of the 257 questionnaires received, 19 could not be used, either for not being correctly filled in or because they corresponded to firms that, contrary to the information previously available, did not meet all the criteria for sample selection One questionnaire was excluded during the data analysis because several of the answers were strongly inconsistent Brazilian companies also ranked this determinant very high, but they were too few to exert a significant influence over their group’s mean This is particularly ironic since ICEP (2000) publicizes Portugal as ‘a flexible economy with little bureaucracy and low taxes’ 284 The Challenge of International Business Appendix A Foreign firms’ questionnaire Table 14A.1 Sample of the questionnaire (page 3) REASONS TO INVEST IN PORTUGAL: What was the influence of each of the following elements in the decision to invest in Portugal [1 – irrelevant – very important]? Size of the Portuguese market Expected growth of the Portuguese market To increase the Group’s turnover To establish/acquire your own distribution network Follow-up of customers in their entry into the Portuguese market Reaction to competitors’ move Increased competition in the home market Need to reduce dependency on sales agents Need to reduce dependency on suppliers 10 Reaction to the inefficiency of sales agents 11 Reaction to suppliers’ inefficiency 12 Need to reduce risk through market diversification 13 Reduction of labour costs 14 Quality of labour force 15 Transportation costs 16 Access to natural resources 17 Need to avoid tariff or non-tariff barriers 18 Quality of local infrastructure 19 Quality/density of the Portuguese cluster relevant to the firm 20 Acquisition of technology/ catch up with technological developments 21 Search for complementarity with local partners 22 Acquisition of international experience 23 Good opportunity to buy local firm 24 Invitation/suggestion of Portuguese individual or firm 25 Easier access to the European Union market 26 Reaction to the new conditions set by the European Single Market 27 Public incentives to foreign investment in Portugal 28 Cultural proximity between Portugal and the home country 29 Geographical proximity between Portugal and the home country 30 Economic stability in Portugal 31 Political stability in Portugal 32 International image of Portugal 33 Other 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 Which of the previous elements would you single out as the most important? www.ebook3000.com A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal 285 DID THE FIRM CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE LOCATIONS BEFORE INVESTING IN PORTUGAL? No No Yes No Spain Ireland Greece Other European Union countries Eastern European countries Other 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 [1 – not considered; – considered; – strong alternative] Appendix B The determinants of FDI Eigenvalue 1 Figure 14B.1 Scree plot 11 13 15 17 19 Component number 21 23 25 27 29 286 Table 14B.1 Factors’ loadings, rotated component matrix Component Political stability Economic stability International image Acquiring technology Access natural resources Inefficiency of suppliers Local cluster Local infrastructure Reduce dependency on suppliers Reduce dependency on agents Inefficiency of agents Establish network Follow customers Market growth Market size EU market ESM Avoid barriers Geographic proximity 10 0.904 0.885 0.791 0.050 À0.117 À0.003 0.326 0.461 À0.126 0.015 À0.005 0.056 0.058 0.122 0.027 0.043 0.209 0.111 0.187 À0.014 À0.015 0.119 0.722 0.662 0.652 0.633 0.553 0.546 0.176 0.178 À0.047 À0.180 0.067 0.099 0.089 0.128 0.178 0.042 0.001 À0.007 0.127 0.036 0.052 0.261 0.011 À0.111 0.314 0.841 0.779 0.698 0.594 0.166 0.170 À0.032 0.168 0.010 0.109 0.084 0.103 À0.014 0.159 À0.204 0.010 0.252 0.057 À0.044 0.015 0.056 0.301 0.466 0.831 0.825 0.015 0.041 À0.067 0.018 0.071 0.079 0.073 0.013 0.099 0.076 0.183 0.196 0.080 0.078 0.049 À0.020 À0.067 À0.007 0.039 0.822 0.703 0.612 À0.006 0.052 0.163 0.203 0.071 0.225 À0.082 À0.073 0.008 À0.094 À0.073 0.023 0.162 À0.048 0.110 À0.004 0.061 0.270 À0.205 0.874 0.160 0.159 À0.063 0.081 0.128 0.331 À0.231 À0.122 0.398 0.066 0.039 0.093 0.144 0.055 0.055 0.128 À0.126 0.376 À0.013 0.083 0.080 0.153 0.132 À0.091 0.200 À0.129 0.153 0.344 À0.100 À0.055 À0.180 0.000 À0.128 À0.143 0.106 0.202 À0.060 0.002 0.075 0.065 À0.040 0.086 0.155 0.155 0.063 0.027 0.046 À0.039 0.096 À0.032 0.083 0.042 0.036 À0.001 0.166 0.192 0.005 0.044 0.043 0.128 0.227 À0.085 À0.037 0.056 0.175 0.116 0.127 0.095 0.035 À0.046 0.043 0.122 0.028 0.047 0.059 0.075 www.ebook3000.com Cultural proximity Market diversification International experience Reduction of labour costs Quality of labour Invitation Local firm for sale Complementarity locals Competition at home Reaction to competitors Note: 0.168 0.282 0.010 0.113 0.347 0.088 0.024 À0.010 0.091 0.146 0.049 0.094 0.116 0.064 0.170 0.011 0.200 0.331 0.095 0.088 À0.088 0.216 0.045 À0.235 À0.128 0.062 À0.030 0.091 0.038 0.223 0.076 0.098 0.104 À0.229 À0.108 0.089 À0.073 0.211 0.014 0.162 0.121 0.031 0.248 0.064 0.198 0.337 À0.111 0.139 0.110 À0.024 0.786 0.089 0.210 0.016 0.025 À0.024 0.064 0.152 0.153 À0.054 0.207 0.673 0.630 À0.059 0.016 0.122 À0.132 0.325 0.137 0.099 0.018 À0.108 0.028 0.835 0.727 À0.044 À0.050 0.119 0.087 0.077 0.092 À0.067 0.178 À0.056 0.016 0.754 0.701 0.588 À0.060 0.200 0.037 0.095 0.233 0.073 0.121 À0.040 0.246 À0.132 0.818 0.694 Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser normalization; 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